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Comment by RageZero

This mount seems to have no bind on pickup mark. Usually these kinds of mounts are TCG (Because otherwise it would show BoE like Poseidon) It is a sad day for ingame mount farmers once more!

Comment by Cheeznips

This looks to be a new mount made by Engineers. Spell seen here: Sky Golem

Comment by Tsuwulf

The clawwwwwwwww! The claw is our master. The claw chooses who will go and who will stay.

Comment by Runeweaver

You saved our lives, we are eternally grateful.

Comment by Sam97

Cool . Let it be more mechanical mounts like this .

Comment by vindurza

i wonder what it looks like i'm hoping we carry our passenger crane game style *looks like it has been completely redesigned you can no longer carry passengers and it looks like a giant mech that lets you pick herbs =[ kinda hoping we can also mine and skin with it and maybe pet battle cause just herbs is a little boring*

Comment by Wirxaw

Well, taking living steel as an neglectable component(9-11k mat price), I can only assume these Stabilized Lightning Sources will be some engineering-converted raid drops for blacksmithing, with possible daily cooldown and additional costs. If DE blood spirits have fallen in price to nearly 1-2k due to their abundance, I suppose a rare boss mat(like we had in WotLK and Cata), converted with a price and cooldown, would be at least 5-10k worth for quite some time. Maybe by the end of expansion it may be down to 3-5k, but that's in ages. Assuming the price of 5k and being hopeful, that becomes 150k gold price for Lightning stuffs. With 10k for Living Steel(which will go up again). Now I can only guess that rarity of this recipe will be no less than Sandstone predecessor, meaning that crafting fee will amount in thousands.Congrats, who needs yak. Who needs $forced TCG. We are going to have legitimately obtainable 200k price mount.

Comment by GustoGA

Just a little shell shocked that makes 3 sellable itemsPierre, Advanced Refrigeration Unit and the mount Sky Golem. Whose the goblin that bribed, cajoled, blackmailed blizz into showing us some much love in 5.2, do I owe you 2% of all my sales:)

If it is BOP I hope this mount will truly be "account wide" and all my non engineers can enjoy the mount.

Comment by Severage

Looks like the Engineering companion of Vial of the Sands. Even has a very similar icon.

Makes me wonder if Engineering is required to ride it like Gyrocopters, or required to make it, like Vial of the Sands.

Either way, I feel it's safe to say that it will have an expensive and/or rare recipe.

Comment by jkurkul

Nobody has said how to obtain the recipe, if it's the same arduous process and luck needed for the vial - I'm not really jumping up and down.

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Comment by LabTech118

... I wonder if instead of just being the claw, We'll get a gyrocopter WITH that claw attached to the bottom?

Comment by ribi

Perhaps the passenger rides in the claws below, a little bit like the Foxicopter?

Comment by Ravij

I BIGGER SCREENSHOT IS REQUIRED!

... And there needs to be someone riding on it.. It's not a true screenshot unless it has the 2nd rider in it.. given that it's a 2 person mount.

Comment by Matthat15

Oh I'm going to love this one... >:3

Comment by Drkgodz

its fake. the claw never picks up﻿ anything. EVER.

Comment by Shoadowolf

Note: Does not pick up prizes, but intead......Yo dawg, I heard you like crane games, so we made a crane so you can crane while you crane!Edit: Why the downrate? Can't you guys even take a "Yo dawg" joke?

Comment by Drkgodz

i have been chosen! farewell my friends, i go on to a better place!

Comment by urbanmonkey

guys the screen shot is a joke btw. this is a toy(npc) im guessing sky claw will look along the lines of mirons head with 4 legs acting as the claw. thats if it even looks like a claw at all lets face it we just dont know.

Comment by pyakuz

Tools:Blacksmith Hammer

isnt it Blacksmither thing? Why u thinking its from Engineering?

Comment by Darkbander

This no longer is a two seater? Wow, what a let down. Can we at least get a real pic of the actual thing?

Comment by ThalinHellscream

I really hope the in game model and texture is much better than the current screenshot.

Comment by Valarauko

Me:@Ghostcrawler How about the Stabilized Lightning Source? Can we at least get ready for its arrival or is there nothing new for engineering?

Ghostcrawler:@blehninja It's not. We had to pull it at the last second. Hopefully we can fix it and it will return.

So hopefully we will see it at some point.

Comment by Krutobrko

OH COMEON BLIZZ!FINNALY SOME GOOD MOUNT AND YOU JUST WRITE THIS IS MADNESS!

Comment by ElZombo

For engineers patch 5.2 was been a huge disappointment... all three new items removed shortly before the patch went live. I was really excited about a new mount and pet. Now all the living steel I've been saving literally rusts in my bags.

Comment by Alithenius

Pffffft... still rather have an Airplane Mount

Comment by Durg

Sadly, this and all the other Engineering items for 5.2 were pulled at the last second. Funny how Blacksmithing didn't have any "surprise kinks".

Comment by warconz

Do blizzard hate us Engineers, or what?Why did they pull this out in the last damn second just like that? This makes me a sad Engineer T n T. I really hope this and the other stuff gets put into the game... :/

Comment by SiSkEr

He is trying to sell it here. Anyone who knows what this could be?(##RESPBREAK##)2060##DELIM##Sas148##DELIM##

Comment by Suej

OMFG! I SO F* WANT IT!

Comment by stikz

aww yiss, must have diss!

Comment by prinnygod

MMO-Champion brings a datamined update today stating that in 5.4 this will now require 30 of "Jard's Peculiar Energy Source" instead of Stabilized Lightning Source. Still no proof of course that Sky Claw will make it in the next patch, and the materials are subject to change.

Comment by Felzane

Considering the name of this item has changed to "Not" Sky Claw and the tooltip contains the infamous Placeholder "PH", it stands to reason this item may never make it to live. It's been said in blue tweets that they may design a different mount altogether as the Sky Claw had lots of bugs.

Comment by ShakeNBake

The item ID is back in 5.4. Is it returning? Or is it something completely different? Only time (and future patch notes) will tell!

Comment by regma

For those looking for Sky Claw. You'll have to look elsewhere for clearly this is "Not Sky Claw". But then if it's not, then what could it be?

Note: When seen in PTR mode. It was called the "Not Sky Claw" and currently (as of this typing) is called "Sky Golem".

Comment by Slisher

For some reason this mount showed up on the Tournament realm (Atleast for EU) And its awesome! Screenshot comming later today

Comment by Furydeath

It is now a Sky Golem in the last PTR build.

Comment by chicurbanity

The bad news for everyone except herbalists: not 2-seater... just an herb picker. (honestly hope they make it a bit more useful in future updates.. I mean my herbalist is a tauren druid, this mount is going to be useless to me on the herb-side of things.)

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Comment by Miztahchipz

SKY GOLEM For what its worth I thought I would pass on what info I could as of 7/28/13 8AM EST. I've spent a lot of time searching the net, fan sites, and playing the 5.4 PTR and managed to find a few things out, but none of which is absolute when it goes live.

SKY GOLEM is the craziest of all engineering mounts, imo. Its a ton of fun to fly, swaying back and forth, side to side, barrel rolls w/a turbo boost all while bouncing off anything you get too close to! The Sky Golem transforms into a robot on the ground. You sit atop his chest which is a big, mean goblin head and the whole thing shakes, ratttles, and rolls with all kinds of steam, whistles, buzzing, and so on.

In the Vale of Eternal Blossoms that has been corrupted by the Sha, you (an engineer of either type) can get a drop of Schematic: Chief Engineer Jard's Journal off presumably any mob here. I don't know if it has to be a mob that's corrupted, but I went with that since it seemed logical based on the research I had done. My journal drop was on my 6th kill, so it didn't take long at all.

I can't confirm the journal will have all 5 recipes when 5.4 goes live, but it seems to be what most fan site's reader's comments think.

The possible good news about the Sky Golem mount is it at least in PTR it looks like any class can (and did, LOL) have one and is account wide. This I base ONLY on what I saw in PTR. Since there is some potentially pretty nasty bad news, I wonder if Blizz may make it a profession specific mount only.

The possible bad news has to do with the mats which at least for PTR are the following:

I only notated the Jard's Peculiar Energy Source as being once per day because I didn't know if any of the other items, both new and old, will or will still have a daily CD. I'm not a pro at this, just trying to help a bit :)

Needless to say, if the numbers and the daily CD is accurate once live it will be a month before we see SKY GOLEMs roaming our lands and skies... and maybe seas too! Further more, it may be even longer before someone is willing to sell theirs as I would expect most engineers would want to keep the first one for themselves. Of course there may be a few people out there like me who have at least 2 engineers that are level 90 and the profession maxed (I wanted to be able to make both new rockets in MoP), who may have one for sale in a month.

I guess its possible that Blizz won't(?) make the Jard's Peculiar Energy Source soulbound so that they can be sold on the AH and in trade chat. That would surely make it one of the hottest & costly mats in trade. Regardless, those with a maxed engineer will have to create and/or come up with a stack of mats and those who don't will have to come up with a much, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH BIGGER stack of gold to get one of the first up for grabs!

Hope this helps to answer some questions, gather a few thoughts, and perhaps start planning a strategy to be one of the first to get one of these crazy awesome mounts! Best of luck to all!

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Comment by wowsbestpvp

this comes to a total of Ghost Iron Ore (4200x)- 210 stacks of ghost iron ore (4200/20)

on my realm Ghost Iron Ore is going for about 50-75g a stack and that would lead to this mount costing anywhere from 10,500G-15,750G if you buy straight Ghost Iron Ore and get it transmuted, not including procs

buying straight living steel, (500-750g) you would be looking at about 15,000-22,500G without including the daily CD

all together considering Tips for transmutes (50-100g X30= 1,500-3,000) and the bit of profit an engineer gets from the daily CD i would think this mount would be selling anywhere from 15,000G-30,000G. this will also depend on what realm, how much competition, along side other possibilities. Tips for buyers: IF you are buying the mount, wait at least 3 months to buy. by then it will be the third wave of mounts coming out ( because it takes 1 month to make) and prices will be more realistic due to more competition

IF YOU ARE SELLING:if you are selling this mount, make sure to start the bars the first day, and have your mount ready to sell the first day possible. the first day i could see these babies going as high as 100k in some cases, but my advice would be camp the AH and always keep it posted for 10% less then the competition. if you are able to sell it for more than 5K of what you have into it be happy, because i guarantee that you will get a much higher profit margin day one than day 90. if you can only get 20k for it frist day, good luck selling for more than 15k in a month!

Tips on Prepif you are reading this prior to 5.4, farm Ghost Iron Ore and get an Alch to make it into Trillium Bars for you for free. then just try to get one Living Steel made a day, because they will be near impossible to get in 5.4 and if you do get your hands on one, the price will most likely go up 20-50%

Cool Facts! this mount is not only a flying mount, but you can gather herbs while in this mount at an increased gathering speed. so it is an all purpose mount, and it is good for everyone. and one more thing, when it flies it flies like a superhero horizontal to the ground, and it looks REALLY cool!

thanks for reading and i hope this helped,~wowsbestpvp

Comment by Kraysis

I hope they will make it "ride-able", in zones where flying is not allowed. And, so my alts could ride it. Goblin on this <3

Comment by Deamonclaw

Might be a good idea to start stocking up on ghost iron/trillium/living steel as the price of these 3 items and their ores will go up a fair amount.

Comment by Deamonclaw

I wish this mount had the sound effect that the dinosaurs from isle of giants have when they walk.

Comment by demonlock666

On the current model you can see the picture of Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft in the cockpit. An updated version from the regular goblin shredders.

Comment by Zelmajin

Is this not a possible Gurren Lagann reference? The mechs in that series also have torsos made to look like faces.

Comment by gorthano

Its not a flying turbo claw , or chopper. Its better. Its the mech. Flying mech. Flying mech working underwaterYes its flying mechanical submarine.(better than vampire horse on fire)BEST MOUNT EVER

Comment by Swifty

Looks like a transformer however we're missing Meghan Fox.

Comment by Deamonclaw

People will see the 1st ever batch of these mounts live on the 9th-10th October depending on what time on 10th september the patch gets released.

Comment by SSlaughter

Its not called sky claw.. called sky GOLEM.. I just got the plans from a sha mob in vale off like 10 kills.

Comment by perculia

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the name of this mount.

When it was first datamined in Patch 5.2, it was called the Sky Claw and the tooltip mentioned a two-seater mount. Since Patch 5.2 is live, visiting this page on our live domain brings up Sky Claw details.

Since this mount is finally obtainable in Patch 5.4, it went through some tweaks on the PTR, including a rename to be the Sky Golem. It's no longer a two-seater mount, but players can herb while mounted. The Sky Golem details appear on our PTR domain and will be on our live page once 5.4 goes live.

Comment by Frehk

WTB screen shot of passenger in the claws.

Comment by dampfire14

Ahhh I feel so happy with myself :) when Mists came out I saved all my "Spirits of Harmony" which totaled out to be 200 :) and being an Alchemist made this a very easy task and had over 2000xGhost Iron Ore I have all my Living Steel ready to go for this mount and just need the Energy Source from the creator...but hey I dont mind spending a little gold for this, but this mount is clearly mine! I guess saving is good. lol

Comment by lecanard2

um no longer going to be on that druid tip now in terms of herb gathering, new alch/engy combo gonna have these kitties mad, haha wow i remember when people complained about druids getting instant flight, what's th epoint now when we can pick in our mount?

granted youd have to drop like 500k gold to put these things together, but i mean it takes like 7 seconds to dismount pick and remount, it adds up, man, and i think you'd get a solid investment

but yeah lemme hear those kitties cry and rate down this here peace bc they are no longer best in alch

Comment by Chackall

So, how do we get the schematic?

EDIT: Got it killing monkeys in the Valley of the Four Winds with my rogue, and in Valley of Eternal Blossoms killing Manifestation of Pride with my hunter.

*I asked this question because I was killing lots of mobs and it wasn't coming, then I thought something was wrong, but no, just keep killing and you'll get it.

Comment by captncraig

Took me about an hour to see the recipe drop. I got it on timeless isle from a random mob.

Comment by Daae

Not a difficult drop rate- I went through the Saurouck cave on the Stair and got it a few mobs in.

Comment by lagmoose

It's going to take at least a month to craft this. It sucks, but oh man will it be worth the wait!

Comment by BlizzardCS

Hey all!

We know this mount is something very expected, so I wanted to inform you about a small visual glitch that is happening with it. At the moment, the name plate attachment is being displayed under the helm when helm is closed. We are aware of this and looking for a solution, will update you as soon as possible!

Comment by Kraniks

I hope we can defeat some kaiju with this

Comment by napredator

Can it be used inside instances? like in battlegrounds

Comment by 0j0n

Change the right arm to a flamethrower, the left arm to a wrecking ball, replace the face with a electro harpoon shooter, put 3 rocket launchers on the back, and you got yourself Rumble's mech.

Comment by Pops715

Gonna love this mount! You can use it on the ground OR in the air OR underwater. When underwater, it acts like a submarine, i.e., you don't need to come up for air. At least that's how it worked in the PTR. Assuming it'll be the same.

UPDATE: Just confirmed that it does NOT act like a submarine. That is, you will still need to come up for air while using this mount underwater. What a drag.....was hoping it would be the same as in the test realm.

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Comment by Starkey

Any other way of getting this mount like through blingtron or BMAH, cause according to underminejournal there already one on Illdan horde AH for 888k

Comment by shadow1

Drops off of blingtron, saw a guy riding around on it and he told me it dropped from the present box.

Comment by piraka810

"It's no longer a two-seater mount, but players can herb while mounted." So close... At least its good to see blizzard catering to the much-unloved group of herbalist engineers out there. Admittedly this may be because no such combination exists.

Comment by wyatthayes

So is this going to be a mount like most gryphons and wyverns, where its usable at level 20, but wont fly? or do we all have to wait til level 60 to use it and cant show it off in battlegrounds? pretty cool if this is possible.

Comment by Tunasaladin

Interestingly, the mount's inner console has a screen with the Queen of Blades' face on it, as seen in the Heart of the Swarm official cover/poster. The plot thickens...

Comment by Isebrilia

Hello EVERYONE!

Im helping a friend, spreading out a contest.So if you have a Ally on Silvermoon, you better listen now!

There is this guy ingame, who loves doing all sorts of contest, just 1 month ago he gave away 25k and the sand stone drake, cause it was his birthday!

Today he have desided to give away the SKY GOLEM!

All you need to do is send him 1 stack of ghost iron bar or 2 stack of ghost iron ore and you will be getting a ingame mail with a ticket nr.

All the rules and infomation will be linked BELOW!

http://$%^&*!@.com/qdcwxjz

Good luck everyone!

Comment by Letago0

This item has been added to be a possible loot of the Blingtron daily package. So if you are super lucky you can obtain this Sky Golem days before people get it with the 30 day engineering.

Comment by jetfire158

Tired of having to climb on and off of your dragon, bird, or chopper just to pick a few flowers? Frustrated when someone else gets to that Golden Lotus JUST before you do every single time? What about getting mobbed by monsters when all you wanted to do was pluck a few Rain Poppies from a riverbank?

Fear not! The all-new SKY GOLEMTM is the answer to all your herb-gathering woes! With this technological marvel, you can pick all your plants without ever having to set a single foot on the ground! Talk to a friendly Engineer today, and you can get this amazing robot for just 500,000 gold! That's right, just 500,000 gold + FREE shipping! Don't wait! Order your SKY GOLEMTM now!*

*Estimated delivery time varies from 10 seconds to 30 days or more. Prices may vary by Engineer. The Engineer is not liable for any malfunctions resulting in safety hazards that may include but are not limited to: stalling engines, unexpected teleportation to random sets of coordinates (including potentially dangerous locations), electrocution, fire, fuel leaks, and explosions. It is highly recommended by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of Azeroth that all users carry parachutes or collapsible gliders on their person while operating this device at high altitudes.

Comment by Soybeanie

I wish Inscription would get something cool already. You already made glyphs 'forever' Blizz, so give us a god damn mount you cheap sons of .. bleep. Oh please, anyone downvoting isn't a Scribe, lol.

Comment by Mzp1994

I was thinking "Hmm will i ever be able to afford this mount...?" I figured not, since the range of the price is going around 100-200k on my server. I never had gold like that.. So i got a bit support from my boyfriend and i lvlled Engineering up in only one day from 1-600. Yesterday i was camping at Blazing Way on Timeless Isle for Huolon, when one of those annoying elite Yaungols attacked me. I raged and killed it, and there was my journal! I freaked out, wrote it to broadcast and a bunch of my friends began to ask how much i would make it for :P So, i am unlikely to many others, going to sell the first one, to one of my very good friends for a fair price. The next one will hopefully be finished around December 11th, if i'm able to get all the mats :) I am really looking forward to get my own around January! I know January seems late, and i almost can't wait, but i prefer to get a bit gold out of it, before the price begins to drops, as many people probably want's to get max lvl engineering now.

Comment by atdoig

Today is October 9th, 30 days after the release of 5.4 and 30 days after the release of this mount. After farming what seems like a million ghost iron ore I have completed my Sky Golem, possibly server first, on the first possible day.

To clarify some of the questions around this mount:

1. You can gather herbs while mounted.2. You can not gather ore while mounted.3. There is a special gathering animation, similar to goblin shredders. 4. It is not a passenger mount.5. It is usable at level 20 without flying and will fly once the character has flying training.6. Unlike some flying mounts this can be used underwater and has a unique swimming animation. 7. There is a Starcraft reference on the control panel.

Overall the whole thing looks like a transformer.

Comment by Terrassen

One of the most ugliest mounts I've yet to see, which will be extremely overrated.

Comment by Pops715

This could have been a good money making item except that most people don't have enough gold to buy it. The first ones were listed on my server (Cenarion Circle) for as low as 198,000 gold, but so far none of them have sold. So I expect the price will quickly drop down to under 30,000 gold just as it did with the Sandstone Drake.

Comment by Deathturtle

I just crafted and learned today. I have to say I am quite pleased with it. I was a bit concerned from previous comments that the mount would be overly noisy (like Mimeron's Head - which I love but I often mute my game when I am using it). The sounds are at a reasonable level and are quite interesting. The full speed flight animation pitches and yaws quite a bit, but I find zooming out removes any ill effects of watching it fly (unlike the serpent mounts that make me nauseous) and the flying animations are excellent.

One of the best mount efforts I have ever seen all around, quality of animations, sounds, concept and execution. So very glad I took the month to make it, and did not sell it.

Comment by jkurkul

This and Forager's Gloves will allow you to pick your herbs just as fast as a druid as well as not leave flight form.

Comment by piraka810

While summoning this mount, an Arclight Spanner appears in your hands. Will upload a screenshot as proof.

Comment by Skullhawk13

Disappointed that something this expensive isn't a two-seater...

Comment by snipercartman

added a picture of the cockpit, where Kerrigan has been hiding all these years...

Comment by Dorren

An epic goblin shredder of doom.The only question is, does it come in red?

Comment by lampeskjermvask

"I'm so sorry Mr. Sky Golem... but you have parkinsons". *Shake*

Comment by Spiralphoenix

It was mentioned in a PTR youtube video that this mount provides the player with underwater breathing - unfortunately, it does not. It was also mentioned in comments here on wowhead during the PTR that it moves flying speed underwater - this is also untrue (on live, anyway). You move at normal, un-mounted swim speed. It still has it's "underwater animation", and the helmet still closes up, though. I was really looking forward to an anytime underwater breathing that didn't require an inventory slot, but, oh well. :)

Comment by kobyashimaru

Bought this today, 80k gold, well worth it! Best mount by far, lovely animations, especially the underwater change to propellers, reminds me of james bond's lotus in spy who loved me when it switched to sub mode :)

Wish we could have proper aerial combat with mounts like this, the pipes on back look just like missiles when flying :)

Comment by AnarkaWH

Made mine while on Timeless Isle and of course it looks great on the ground, very cool animations. I go under water and even it it doesn't have any advantages over other mounts it looks pretty cool.... all a very nice.

But then i leave the isle... and fly... this baby was made to fly!This is THE mount to have atm, great animations and detail... i don't know what Sky Claw was gonna be but... couldn't be this awesome. Of course apparently Sky Claw was a 2man mount and it would be pretty cool to share the flying experience with people that don't have the Golem.

Now i just need to find the schematic of the Golem's gun and i'm ready to kill some aliens(evil or not)!

Comment by jeeyeop

Sold both that I made for 65k each almost immediately after posting on trade (should've went for more, but I thought 65k was greedy already). I asked one of the people who bought it to mount up for me... I'm deeply saddened it's not me in there T.T Oh well, 29 more days til my second batch.

Comment by lokomoma

PPL if you dident know ther is a starcraft ref on the mount look in the panel wher you sit and you can see a pic of Kerrigan from the starcraft series

wowhead wont aprove my pic

Comment by silverd

Just a couple of minor gripes, I do wish you could mine in this thing since it looks like it could be equipped to do just that, and I kinda wish it allowed for underwater breathing and faster swimming since the dome does close and the propellers do turn when underwater. I guess the herb gathering was to let other classes have something similar to Druid herbing, but still, I can dream. Maybe a future version?

Other than that, this is an AWESOME mount. Amazing animation when running, even MORE amazing when flying, I am SO happy I levelled an Engineer, because this bad boy makes it all worth it.

Comment by Raven2099

OMG It's Soooooo Ugly*runs away screaming*

Comment by ilostmahbucket

DO A BARREL ROLL!

Comment by Ezekington

All Sky Golem owners take their orders from Sarah Karrigan now.

*look inside the mount next to the handles*

Comment by Eldarias

This might seem like an odd question but I need to know, when using this mount as a ground mount does pressing the spacebar do it's /mountspecial or does it jump in place?

Comment by caffeinequeen

For herbalist out there, I highly recommend pairing this mount with Forager's Gloves. For all intents and purposes, you become a druid. Herbing is almost instantaneous (around 1.2 seconds), and you do not have to dismount so you can quickly hop from one to another.

It is amazing.

Comment by krazykenny666

Looks like Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

Comment by krazykenny666

Looks like Gruntilda from Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

Comment by krazykenny666

Looks like Mecha-Grunty from Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge

Comment by barbeque

Some thoughts from playing with this mount:

1. As many have pointed out, its flying animation is horizontal. In fact, foldable wings come out his back and he "transforms" into something of a jet plane with boosters at the back like Macross.2. Even if you try to fly straight, this will swing left and right, and does a barrel roll once in a while. It will, however, correct its course to where you are headed.3. In non-flight zone, e.g. Timeless Isle, if you do a jump, it closes its hood and hoovers in the air for a while.4. Worth every penny.

Comment by menace97

there seems to be some conflicting information going back and forth, and some confusion. so to be crystal clear, this mount is made by an engineer, but once it is made, it can be sold, given to another player, or used yourself. if you decide to keep it and add it to your collection of mounts then ALL of your characters will be able to use this mount as it is account-bound (and your characters do not need to be engineers to use it).

Comment by Scaletta

I notice that there is a portrait of Sarah Kerrigan, Queen of the Swarm (Starcraft II), inside the seat of the Sky Golem!

I will submit a screenshot.

Comment by puttenutt

Damn, Blizz really outdid themselves this time.

Comment by PunchFire

"Who the hell do you think I am?"

Comment by kinsaikun

wtb real dashboard.

Comment by Boudica79

After waiting 30 days to get this mount on my main (engineer) I have to say I'm pleased with it. There are one or two things I'm kinda "Meh" about though.

1. The sound on mounting - redo of the chopper noise anyone?

2. Movement sound is VERY quiet.

3. No underwater breathing. (This was a feature on the PTR)

4. The herbing while mounted is a nice touch but would be better if it were extended to mining and skinning as well.

Apart from those few minor niggles this has to be by far my favorite mount in the game at the moment. The flying animation is awesome and reminds me of Starscream from Transformers! (So much so, I'm tempted to set up a macro for flying in it along the lines of "Starscream Away!" )

If you have an engineer or know a nice one that won't rip you off on cost I highly recommend getting this mount, you won't be sorry you did!

Comment by soleless

Woot,this mount rocks.Now all can check out my BUNS of STEEL!

Comment by unlucky4you

I just got my Sky Golem, extremely happy! But I wanted to inform everyone on this really neat animation. if you haven't noticed already, when you are casting the mount or err "summoning" it, you will have a Wrench in your hand! ALSO can we get a gnome version of this fella =D?

Comment by Fitzit

I am ironman!

Comment by ZiaGaming

I am ironman!

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Comment by p2nky

One of the best mounts in game ! For me its the BEST ONE! Just awesome mount ! Thanks Blizzard!

Comment by Geeez

I found an easter egg involing this, if you face the same way as your character, zoom out so you can see them, and then look directly in front of your legs, there is a picture of Sarah Kerrigan, the main "bad guy" fro StarCraft 2. (Also made by blizzard.

Comment by Aaronlayk

Can this be mounted without having Engi?

Comment by koolme26

Seeing how this mount is selling on the auction house for upwards of 50,000g (or at least on my realm), it definitely has a great resell value. As long as you're not tempted to keep it for yourself, you're sure to make a very decent profit by creating this mount as I did.

Comment by Shikamarana

Am I the only one who thinks this thing is horribly ugly? I mean, most of the metal bits look damaged and rusty, and it looks like a terrible struggle for it to even stand with the way it's constantly jerking and twitching.

Comment by cachcoco

I wish this thing allowed mining too.

Comment by Mazovoid

This mount is so cool and unique, I think it is a shame that they made it so easy to acquire. This strikes me as something that should be rare/exclusive, or just hard to get in general.

Reminds me of the Vial of the sands. It was such a cool and unique mount at first, but then suddenly everyone and their mother had it and now, let's face it, it just doesn't seem that great anymore.

Comment by Val9

This mount is absolutely fantastic. I suppose it could be argued that it's really ugly, but it's a good kind of ugly :). It would make more sense as people are pointing out that it could mine instead of pick herbs, it being what it is. And the only little thing that's not to my taste is perhaps it moves too much in the air: the spinning thing is awesome but the regular rocking left and right makes me kind of dizzy, especially if I fly longer route with it.

I think I'm having more fun running and zipping around the Timeless Isle with this mount then I've had with any other in the game, and am really happy I made this for myself right now instead of putting it up for sale, which is something I considered due to the price being what it is at the moment.

Comment by Toxickillz

This mount seems to be one of the best mounts I have used in the game!

Here are some cool things the Sky Golem has to offer:

1. The Sky Golem has the ability to pick Herbs while mounted, this is a mount feature similar to the druid flight form. 2. It has an special underwater animation where the Sky Golem closes up the cockpit and swims.3. The Sky Golem has a very unique flight animation to it. Flying the Sky Golem is a complete blast!4. It has an small picture of Kerrigan (Starcraft 2) inside of the cockpit.

Here are some thing's you should know about the Mount...

It requires level 20 to use as a ground mount, and once the player has Expert Riding it can take off to the sky and fly like a super hero! The sky Golem is also not a passenger mount. The mount is Bind to Account, so you can use this on all of you're characters. The Sky Golem requires engineering to make, but it does not require any profession in order to use the mount.

(I am new to Wowhead, so please If I have made any mistakes forgive me.)

Comment by Chasedon

This thing is great, can't wait to finish building mine. This mount is cheap compared to other engineering mounts in MOP it trades off the 60,000g orb requirement for a mandatory 30 day build time.

Comment by matth031

Just noticed it has a picture of Kerrigan from Starcraft if you look at the front of the cockpit

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Comment by baradiel

First Mount in World of Warcraft to grab objects without dismounting. But this mount can only grab Herbalism Plants.

I hope that the next mount to grab objects without dismounting will grab Mining Ores.

When i first learned this mount i wanted it for my collection, but when i knew that i could grab Herbs with it, i just grabbed my Farmer Character and started leveling that Profession up, i will have more gold though since i am Alchemy with my main. Almost every expensive elixir/flask uses Golden Lotus, i have a lot of Spirit of Harmony but i can use them for something else, that's why i want a Herbalism.

Comment by Elkrog

Is that Sarah Kerrigan aka The Queen of Blades I see on the controls monitor in the cockpit?It does look a lot like the cover art of "Heart of the Swarm" :-)

Comment by InsaneAssault

I can only imagine what my toon is doing inside the cockpit with that picture of Kerrigan on the screen when the dome is enclosed.

Comment by Sonis

They need to readd carrying someone, that's the only reason I started making this thing, And I just learnt today that they removed it. Blizzard ruining items since 2004.

Comment by Szokhee

I just call this dude: SEMTD (Self-Equippable-Machano-Tauren-Druid)

Get herbalism, equip a Forager's Gloves, mount up the Golem and enjoy the benefits what tauren druids get for herbalism. 0,5 sec herb picking time without dismounting.

Cheers ;)

Comment by Norrbert

One important note: your character must be level eighty to learn this mount, once it's learned however, it can be accessed by lower level alts on the same account.

Comment by shrikearghast

As others have commented, the mount sways heavily, which can be pretty darned disorienting. Certainly, if there is a 'hard to fly' mount in WoW, this is it.

Why? Because the swaying isn't just the mount moving around a 'center of gravity' or point in space, such as the case with the cloud serpents. Generally speaking, while you will see some clipping with the Sky Golem as it nails trees, if you see it slewing off one direction or another and it smacks into something, it will stop. Thus, your camera, centered behind the mount, is not the true center point for control. It's actually kind of disorienting, and you'll find yourself attempting to anticipate the sways as you navigate narrow spaces.

So: fun mount, but the swaying could be tuned down a bit.

Comment by Cymre

I stayed up late so I could make the last Peculiar Energy Source for my mount after the first 30 days. After my test drive, I'm so glad I chose to make it over the pets first.

It's a great mount which doubles as a submarine (although sadly it doesn't allow underwater breathing). In flight it has a cool side to side motion and does a loop de loop every now and then. The Golem also rotates the top half of it's body when stationary.

Comment by Kimsteed

If you have a few 90's it can be extremely easy to farm this up. All I had to do was use my Farm for Mineral farming, except for my Alchemist who planted the Motes of Harmony. It's was mind numbingly monotonous, but it was easy.

Comment by kingerz

Easy to make IF you have your farm and a 600 alchemist. The daily farm produce from snakeroot seeds will just leave you needing a few mining nodes which are plentiful near the farm. Easy and fun.

Comment by ISeeVoices

First reaction while on this mount: "Jesus Christ this thing will be crashing any moment now!". When flying the "sensation" is worst then with the flying butterfly from the 100 mounts achive. Still awesome to be a transformer tho :D

Comment by Dirger

I just got my own sky golem and i noticed almost instantly there is a "Heart of the Swarm" poster in the cockpit!awesome

Comment by Geovani

como le ago para la montura]

Comment by Ballybog

A certain song comes to mind when riding around with this mount.

"Intergalactic planetary planetary intergalactic".....

Now if I can just get it to do some sort of robotic dance I'd be set.

Comment by Steamhammer

Bad news everyone, if you use the Preserved Holly or Fresh Holly to turn this into a Reindeer it does NOT keep the ability to gather herbs while mounted :(

Comment by sopor30

Anyone else ever feel like iron man when they fire this thing up and take off?

... well, except for the drunken weaving back and forth. Iron man probably flies much straighter most of the time (unless he's just downed a few, if you know what I mean).

Comment by stickshift

I thought the face I saw on the console was a reflection of my own because that's the exact expression I have when dealing with the legion of Mining Hogs!

Comment by wildemu

One of the worst wow purchases I've ever made. The swaying of this mount is so jarring that if you suffer from any form of motion sickness, this mount will be hell for you. I can't emphasize enough how much swaying this mount does in the air, which makes it a nightmare for farming. Be warned.

Comment by CloverSlayer

I love the Flying Style of the Golem

Like a Mecha

Comment by Milliamz

If you look closely, you can see the woman from starcraft inside the cockpit behind the controls.

Comment by KeithM2012

I was under this impression that an engineer could also mine ores without being dismounted while using this mount....I guess some Blizz employee didn't bother to specify it was only for herb (which my engy does not do).

Guess this mount goes back to the garage to collect dust along with the copters.

Comment by Pops715

The demand for these mounts has all but disappeared on my server (Cenarion Circle). I've posted and reposted the last one I crafted on the AH for about a month now and it just will not sell, even with it listed below 10,000 gold.

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Comment by corners

Herbalist do not need to dismount to pick herbs with this mount. One caveat is you have to be on the ground, cant do it hovering.

Comment by longjourney

Can be gift wrapped with Ribboned Wrapping Paper

Comment by Stormstout812

Kinda looks like a goblin's take on a Gunman from Gurren Lagann (more specifically, it kinda looks like a goblin version of Lagann. Minus the drills.)

Comment by akrilic

this is by far my favorite mount!

Comment by NaAbPwNzOr420

where is vendor for this ? ?

Comment by Xururuca

I was able to make some testing at BETA for leveling engineering.

Sky Golem or Piere or Rascal Bot all turns yellow at 605 skill level (so no more +5 level).

Retinal google was yellow until 610 and turned green so there is no cheap way to go over 611 with MOP mats.

PS: You can try making lots of thermal anvil thou.

Comment by darthmullet

Easter Egg -- when zoomed into first person mode while mounted, there is a picture of Kerrigan from StarCraft on the "dash board"

Comment by Jaadis

So, i think the most relevant question now in DRAENOR age is if this is still the only mount that can gather herbs and mining nodes? The mount's tooltip in no way indicates that it can do that in the first place. How would you know what mounts can, unless blizz tells you or go trying?

Comment by Trondiver427

No super true for buyout. On AH it is but if you search of AH I bought one for 5k.

Comment by Random0009

This is really awesome mount! I've ignored him for a long time, I don't know why. I saw him for 11k yesterday, so I decided to try that. And I'm pretty surprised. I just love that! :-) Flying animation is just awesome, so as /mountspecial and unorthodox walking. :-D Staying mounted while farming herbs (except Draenor, I have Stables) is a nice bonus for me. It's definitely worth the cost.

BTW...It's strange it is arround 12-13k now. I remember him for >20k and Chopper was for 13-14k. Prices are now swapped, why?

Comment by stinkyfinger

It's the next expansion now and this thing is still easily in the top ten best mounts in-game. It's not even a store mount!

Comment by Ooko

Uh, excuse me, I'm fairly certain my lvl100 is more than a 4-drop.

Although given all the dragons and demi-gods I've punched out, maybe I'm in fact a certain 3-drop...

Comment by Xemit100

After looking at this mount for a while, I realized that it looks like a goblin version of Lagann from TTGL. Now, if it only had a mining drill...

Comment by Korwynd

I usually call this thing the "Goblin Gundam" (anime fans would understand the term), granted "Goblin Mecha" is more accurate, but I like Goblin Gundam better.

Comment by SANGVINE

Idk if im wrong but i strongly saw a diference bewteen flyng high near a mountains (like blades edge mountains) with a lots of obstacles the "loop and boost" efect appears a lot more than flyng in open spaces, and indeed it helped a lot to dodge with the "like a boss" face (sory my english idk if im talking like cave man but i liked to share this with u ppl) saludos!

Comment by Driomenka

I'm not sure if others have seen but on the inside screen of your Sky Golem your toon seems to be staring at a screen with Sarah Kerrigan on it. I captured it inside my salvage yard at an odd angle, will upload snippet.

Comment by shortlived1

This thing is so not worth it. That drunken sway this has while flying is insufferable.

Comment by Amarvel

Just saying something, on my server it sells for 22k on buyout. Since I am Asian i decided to do some math on selling this mount. Since it costs 4200 ghost iron ore i looked up how much ghost iron ore sells for on buyout. I found that it costed 468 gold. Doing 468 * 3 i found the total cost for 600 ghost iron ore to make 300 ghost iron bars which make 30 Jard's Peculiar Energy Source costs 1,404 gold. Then I did Living Steel Ghost Iron Ore cost which is 8,424 Gold for 3,600 Ghost Iron Ore which goes into 1,800 Ghost Iron Bars which finally make 30 Living Steel. Adding both 8,424 and 1,404 I found the total cost to be 9,828 gold. By doing 22,000 - 9,828 i found the total profit to be 12,172 gold which is pretty nice. However, something seemed off so i did some more research and found out that the cost for 30 Living Steel on my server was 6,570 which is cheaper than buying the 3,600 Ghost Iron Ore which costed 8,424 Gold. Doing the math agian on adding 6.570 and 1,404, it came out to be a 7,974 total cost which is less than our original cost. By doing 22,000 - 7.974, we can get a 14,026 profit by waiting 30 days (plus a few extra days on waiting for it to sell and daily cool down on Jard's Peculiar Energy Source). 30 days which equal 4 weeks can estimate up to 12k gold in profit (if you earned 3k per week by raiding and garrison). So with the 14,026 and the 12k (estimated) profit you can earn up to 26,026 gold in 1 month which is half of what a wow token costs (if I am not mistaken it is more than half). I just wanted to share this with you all. Thank you for reading.

Comment by Zabianyt

For anyone who may still be having some trouble figuring out the sky golem, I made a guide for it a while back. It can probably explain it. It pretty much says everything that's been posted here in video form. Including where to get the recipe etc.

Comment by Mondoblasto

I finally managed to make one and sent it to my main to learn ('cause why not) but on opening my mount list, couldn't find it anywhere, even with search.

Went back to the engineer and found it, also faved it. When I logged onto my main, I found it. I don't know if it was the logging or faving it, but there you have it. So if you run into the same situation, don't panic; it is in your list, it just hasn't updated yet for whatever reason.

Comment by Casn

In any zone that does not allow flying, this mount is superior to Druid, since his ground travel form currently can't reach epic ground mount speeds.

EDIT:After patch 7.1 Druid ground travel form once again reaches 200% movement speed when activated out of combat. However, unlike in-combat travel form, it currently does not benefit from any movement speed increases (like Perfect Dreamgrove Blossom), nor it benefits from Pathfinder since shapeshifts are not considered mounts. So for people with Pathfinder Sky Golem is still faster. On the other hand, speed difference is much smaller now so depending on preferences and talent choices, travel form is pretty valid choice for herbing as Druid.

EDIT2:In BfA, local pathfinder does affect travel form, making it actually superior choice for non-Guardian specced druids, since Daze will not remove travel form. We shall see how things change in next expansion.

Comment by SamiHuutoniemi

Since I started using my Sky Golem, I haven't seen a single Withered Hungerer from Starlight Rose. Can there be a bug that they don't spawn if you pick the herb while mounted? I tried switching to a normal mount, and after about 10 herbs, I got a withered. Anyone else experienced this?

Comment by Thrallscream

As of today the U.S. median price for this bad boy is just over 100K shooting up 250% since the launch of Legion. I had 3 sitting in my bank and decided to sell them. They sold for 100K each by the nights end lol geezus.

7 of my toons have the ability to make them so I've been making Jards cooldown everyday. If you want to get rich and have maxed out toons, you sell Sky Golem. The extra million or 2 people returning to WOW (not counting the newbies) after years of hiatus are wanting one and since it takes 30 days to make one, they're in BIG demand again. I bought mine for 10k during the content drought in MOP. Now they're 100K lol

If you are savvy Living Steel, Ghost Iron and Trillium won't be hard to come by. Plenty of ways to get this stuff cheap now.

Now, selling one will fund your wow addiction for 3 months free thanks to tokens. Takes 5 minutes a day to do the cooldown.

If anyone is interested in a good money making venture, power level some toons in engineering and start knocking out them cooldowns!

Go get rich!

Comment by Bugazor

whether working racial skill Cultivation (Tauren) while mounted on it in the realities of the Legion?

Comment by shortlived1

This thing is so not worth it. That drunken sway this has while flying is insufferable.

Comment by thisguyyouknow

Some of the sounds used by the Sky Golem get annoying to me after a bit. I just don't want to lower the volume on the whole game to silence this mount. So, if you're like me and looking to modify or mute some or all of the sounds used by your Sky Golem, here is a list of all the OGG files found in the file path associated with it. Some may be used for other things, but the sounds you may want to modify on the Sky Golem are among these.

To mute some or all of these, just create a blank text document, and rename it and its actual txt file extension, to any or all of the named .ogg files listed below. If you're a novice Windows user, file extensions may be hidden. You may end up just changing the name of your new text document to "GoblinShredderLoop.ogg" and the reality is you have the file "GoblinShredderLoop.ogg.txt". This won't work to mute the sound. Just Google "How to show file name extensions in windows explorer" follow those instructions and make sure file extensions are shown.

You can also get a real Silence.ogg file here.Make a bunch of copies of it, and change the names to match those listed below.

Next you need to know where you installed your World of Warcraft game on your computer.Create a folder in the World of Warcraft game folder and name it "Sound". (This folder is not there by default. It can be there already if you've modified other game sounds before.) Inside the Sound folder, create another folder called "creature".Inside the creature folder, create another folder called "GoblinShredder".When you're done the file path should read..World of Warcraft\Sound\creature\GoblinShredder\It's inside the GoblinShredder folder that you want to place all the silent ogg files you created.Start up and log in to your game, mount up and you should no longer hear the sound/s you muted.

Comment by Wellfire

This is just the best mount ive had so far - the way it flies, it moves around when moving, it makes it just so much more fascinating to look at while flying around. Blizzard should really keep thinking these things into their mounts. The way the Pandaria Dragons also move where good, but nothing really special, this is special!

Comment by Frosty331

Guys i have a question. Is the scroll for the sky golem still optainable in legion?

Comment by smtips

After finding out how much work it is to make one - Jard's Peculiar Energy Source can only be made once a day and you need 30, and same with Living Steel and you need 30 - I'm astounded at the low prices on the auctions. 30 days to make ONE and people only getting 70K is CRAZY. I bought out the three I saw and have no doubt I will double or triple my money, they are being sold way too cheap with all the huge gold being made these days in the game.

Comment by Coldstar72

Concerning the Sky Golem in Legion:The Sky Golem does not inhibit Herb Procs (Withered, Foxes, Nightmare Creepers, etc.) or chances of Herbalism Rank Quest items. However, it does seem to have a bug concerning the Rank 3 Aethril Proc (Gathering Herbs in the Broken Isles has a chance of spawning additional Herbs). If you attempt to collect an herb that will proc additional herbs while on the Sky Golem, the game will give a red "Invalid Target" Message, the original herb will despawn without any loot and will not spawn additional plants. I have only had the time to test this with Dreamleaf and Foxlower, so I will have to test the other Herbs before I'm certain.Otherwise, the Sky Golem seems to be working as intended. Happy gathering!Edit: Had a Frenzied Fox and a Copy Herb proc at the same time while Gathering Foxflowers on the Sky Golem. Thought it would be worth mentioning as an outlier.

Comment by shortlived2

This thing is so not worth it. That drunken sway this has while flying is insufferable.

Comment by zlloyd1

Is it still possible to get this mount since Blizz decided to patch out Jard's Peculiar Energy Source, or did they remove this from the game while they were busy ruining everything? I can never keep track of what they have removed from the game this week anymore!

Comment by Fridgemusa

SUPERMAN!

Comment by snobahr

Side note: When doing the Feeling Crabby? cooking quest in Stormwind, my gnome warlock was able to stomp around in the canals at regular ground speed (because she was tall enough in the golem, as it is with many mounts in the "water" in Undercity). No swimmy-slow-down!

Comment by gunsotsu

takes at least a month to makesells for 90kNO THANKS.

Comment by gunsotsu

anyone ever thought about forming unions on wow? or do you all wish to continue selling things for such low prices that you barely make any gold..and in all actuality, creating this thing and selling it for 90k..is a profit loss of about 30k (based on time taken away from other sources of gold farming to make this thing)..

are we going to be serious about playing this game? or are we going to be children who just toss something up on the auction house and put the price at whatever we feel like?

it's getting tiring tbh.in all honesty, blizzard should make it so ppl have to join unions of workers (a blacksmiths guild, engineers guild etc) in order to even post stuff on the ah. that would be a much better system than this

o spend 2 hours a day, instead of making 5k gold in those two hours i will farm matts for this mount. i will than be out 5k gold a day, just to make a 90k mount..and my total profits will be -110k gold YIPEE

in what world does this make sense?

can we all get our heads out of the sand please.thanks.

Comment by gunsotsu

like..seriously..saw someone today selling Jade Panther for 15k gold... come on people. do you not understand what happens when stuff like this goes down? it may just be a game, but the laws of economics actually apply to it..and to be quite frank people like that our destroying the wow economy.

Comment by Krazhez

Are these supposed to delete herbs?I thought gathering was personal? Sorry only been playing a few months.Guy in Tiragarde sound running up to the same nodes as me and each time the node would completely disappear after he hit it with his golem.

Comment by Deerdenouement

Hello all, I was wondering if the engineering requirement to get the recipe to drop was now the max pandarian engineering (75)? Or is it higher, into another xpac? Couldn't find the info through searching, so I appreciate the help. Thanks!

Comment by SirZooro

It seems that drop rate for Sky Golem schematic is nerfed now (in BfA). It took me to kill about 80 creatures before I got it. I did this on two chars, and on both it was similar. I suspect that current drop rate is about 1%.